There are 13 ways to get from Liverpool to Bulgaria by bus, plane, train, car, car train, shuttle, busferry, or car ferry
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Bus to Manchester Airport, fly to Sofia Airport
best- Take the bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Manchester Airport The Stationbus
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane MAN - SOF
7h 20m$70–213Bus
cheapest- Take the bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Bucharest Oborbus
- Take the bus from Bucharest Gară Filaret to Sofia Central Bus Stationbus
33h 22m$57–73Train, bus
- Take the train from Liverpool Lime Street to London Eustontrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain Eil
- Take the train from Bruxelles-Midi to St.Poelten Hbftrain Nj
- Take the train from St.Poelten Hbf to Bratislava Hlavna Stanicatrain Rjx
- Take the bus from Bratislava to Sofiabus
37h 37m$583–1,018Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Liverpool to Folkestonecar
- Take the car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthuncartrain
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Sofiacar
25h 52mFly Liverpool to Sofia Airport
- Fly from Liverpool (LPL) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane LPL - SOF
6h 35m$73–261Train to Birmingham Airport, fly to Sofia Airport
- Take the train from Liverpool Lime Street to Birmingham New Streettrain
- Fly from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Sofia Airport (SOF)plane BHX - SOF
8h 9m$111–309Bus to Manchester Airport, fly to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- Take the bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Manchester Airport The Stationbus
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane MAN - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
8h 35m$169–482Bus to Manchester Airport, fly to Plovdiv Airport
- Take the bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Manchester Airport The Stationbus
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Plovdiv Airport (PDV)plane MAN - PDV
8h 20m$121–269Train to Birmingham Airport, fly to Bucharest Otopeni, shuttle
- Take the train from Liverpool Lime Street to Birmingham New Streettrain
- Fly from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Bucharest Otopeni (OTP)plane BHX - OTP
- Take a shuttle bus from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
9h 28m$200–588Bus to Manchester Airport, fly to Burgas Airport
- Take the bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Manchester Airport The Stationbus
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Burgas Airport (BOJ)plane MAN - BOJ
7h 14m$115–385Bus via Munich
- Take the bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to London Victoria Coach Station Arrivalsbus 550 / ...
- Take the bus from London Victoria Coach Station to Munich Central Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Munich central bus station to Sofiabus
2d 3hBus and ferry, train
- Take the busferry from Liverpool Elmway close to Craiova, Autogara Pelendava Nordbusferry
- Take the train from Craiova to Vidintrain
- Take the train from Vidin to Sofia Severtrain
2d 10h$105–232Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Liverpool to Port of Dovercar
- Take the car ferry from Port of Dover to Calaiscarferry
- Drive from Calais to Sofiacar
27h 4m$501–761
Manchester Airport (MAN) to Sofia Airport (SOF) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Liverpool to Bulgaria is to bus which costs $55 - $75 and takes 33h 22m.
The fastest way to get from Liverpool to Bulgaria is to fly which takes 6h 35m and costs $70 - $270.
No, there is no direct bus from Liverpool to Bulgaria station. However, there are services departing from Liverpool, Liverpool One and arriving at Sofia Central Bus Station via Bd. Garii Obor, Piata Unirii 1 and Bucharest Gară Filaret. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 33h 22m.
The distance between Liverpool and Bulgaria is 2305 km.
The best way to get from Liverpool to Bulgaria without a car is to bus which takes 33h 22m and costs $55 - $75.
It takes approximately 7h 20m to get from Liverpool to Bulgaria, including transfers.
Liverpool to Bulgaria bus services, operated by Tarsin, depart from Liverpool, Liverpool One station.
The best way to get from Liverpool to Bulgaria is to bus which takes 33h 22m and costs $55 - $75. Alternatively, you can fly, which costs $70 - $270 and takes 6h 35m.
Liverpool to Bulgaria bus services, operated by Tarsin, arrive at Bucharest Obor station.
Bulgaria is 2h ahead of Liverpool. It is currently 12:34 AM in Liverpool and 2:34 AM in Bulgaria.
What companies run services between Liverpool, England and Bulgaria?
You can take a bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Sofia Central Bus Station via Bucharest Obor, Bd. Garii Obor, Piata Unirii 1, Soseaua Viilor, and Bucharest Gară Filaret in around 33h 22m. Alternatively, Ryanair flies from Liverpool (LPL) to Sofia Airport (SOF) 6 times a week.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–430
Flights from Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–410
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Sofia Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–400
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Sofia Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $100–400
Flights from Manchester Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $90–430
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–420
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–410
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Liverpool to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $65–250
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $70–200
Flights from Manchester Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $55–130
Flights from Manchester Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $55–130
Flights from Manchester Airport to Plovdiv Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $95–340
Flights from Manchester Airport to Plovdiv Airport via Milan Malpensa
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $95–350
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $45–140
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 22m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $90–430
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Bucharest Otopeni via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–420
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Sofia Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $75–260
Flights from Manchester Airport to Burgas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $110–360
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $40–180
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Burgas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $100–370
- Phone
- +44 345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $90–150
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
Train from Liverpool Lime Street to Birmingham New Street
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 34m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $40–70
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $120–210
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Bruxelles-Midi to St.Poelten Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 59m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- $300–550
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
Train from St.Poelten Hbf to Bratislava Hlavna Stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $30–50
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- $30–50
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-en
- Phone
- +44 333 311 0039
- contact.wmr@wmtrains.co.uk
- Website
- westmidlandsrailway.co.uk
Train from Liverpool Lime Street to Birmingham New Street
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40–100
- Website
- https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/
- Phone
- 0219521
- petitii@cfrcalatori.ro
- Website
- cfrcalatori.ro
Train from Craiova to Vidin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 13m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $13–15
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
- Phone
- +35929311111
- onlineticket@bdz.bg
- Website
- bdz.bg
Train from Vidin to Sofia Sever
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $8–13
- Website
- https://www.bdz.bg/en
- 2nd Class
- $8–12
- 1st Class
- $11–13
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Manchester Airport The Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $9–22
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
Bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to London Victoria Coach Station Arrivals
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $50–130
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Manchester Airport The Station
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $4–8
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Munich central bus station to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $95–170
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +40 230 560 555
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Liverpool, Liverpool One to Bucharest Obor
- Ave. Duration
- 23h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $35–50
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +359 88 949 0000
- office@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Bucharest Gară Filaret to Sofia Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 8h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $16–23
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
Bus from Bratislava to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 16m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $40–60
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/en
- Phone
- +359 89 345 5533
- info@atlastaxi.eu
- Website
- atlastaxi.eu
Shuttle from Bucharest Otopeni Airport to Ruse
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- $110–280
- Website
- https://atlastaxi.eu/
- Phone
- 0400 153884
- myynti@tilausliikennehimanen.fi
- Website
- tilausliikennehimanen.fi
Bus from London Victoria Coach Station to Munich Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Tilausliikenne Himanen
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- support@citylines.eu
- Website
- citylines.eu
Bus from Munich central bus station to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $85–120
- Website
- https://citylines.eu/
- Phone
- +359 700 20 544
- Website
- ardatur.bg
Bus from Munich central bus station to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 20m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $100–160
- Website
- https://ardatur.bg/en/
- Phone
- 02 981 10 40
- travel@yubim.eu
- Website
- yubim.eu
Bus from Munich central bus station to Sofia
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $120–170
- Schedules at
- yubim.eu
- Phone
- 0040263701919
- latinoexpres@yahoo.com
- Website
- latinoexpres.ro
Busferry from Liverpool Elmway close to Craiova, Autogara Pelendava Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 46h 44m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $80–200
- Schedules at
- latinoexpres.ro
- Phone
- 01304 44 88 88
- customer.services@poferries.com
- Website
- poferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $8–23
- Website
- https://www.poferries.com/en
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $6–18
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
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